On 23 Jan 2006 Dennis Kowallek wrote: > I would think adoptions "in" could be caught in a number of ways. In my > case, they wouldn't have the same surname (unless they were actually > relatives who were adopted in). And if they did, you can eliminate > anyone with a child status of "adopted". > > Adopted "out" would not be a problem because they should still show up > as part of their natural family. And in my case they would have their > birth surname.
Your missing the big picture here. Obviously the first generation is as you stated above. However think of their children -- they were born with their father's adopted surname. There is currently nothing in the family database identifying an adoption in their ancestry. Many of the adoptions are 2 or more generations back from the living individuals so tracking them by adding a new event (or somesuch) would be quite a time-consuming chore. The need is to identify the living males and females for DNA projects and many One-Name Studies have thousands of individuals and perhaps hundreds of separate trees in the database. Identifying "pure strain" living males and females for the oldest ancestors in each tree is a huge task that Legacy seems unable to perform. I am now reluctantly looking for other software that may be able to do this from a gedcom input. Cheers, -- Dave N. -- David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. --- Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
